08/03/2022
Happy International Meatball day! To celebrate, we have got a beautiful recipe here from our fav Yotam Ottolenghi. A truly new spin on an old school dinner staple! 🍝 Beef Meatballs with Broad Beans and Lemon...
👉 4½ tbsp olive oil
👉 350g broad beans, fresh or frozen
👉 4 whole thyme sprigs
👉 6 garlic cloves, sliced
👉 8 spring onions, cut at an angle into 2cm segments
👉 2½ tbsp lemon juice
👉 500ml chicken stock
👉 salt and black pepper
For the meatballs:
👉 300g minced beef
👉 150g minced lamb
👉 1 medium onion, finely chopped
👉 120g breadcrumbs
👉 2 tbsp each chopped flat-leaf parsley, mint, dill and coriander, plus ½ tbsp extra of each to finish the dish
👉 2 large garlic cloves, crushed
👉 1 tbsp baharat spice mix (link to this in comments)
👉 1 tbsp ground cumin
👉 2 tsp capers, chopped
👉 1 egg, beaten
Method:
🧆 Place all of the meatball ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add ¾ teaspoon of salt and plenty of black pepper and mix well with your hands. Form into balls about the same size as ping-pong balls. Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in an extra-large frying pan for which you have a lid. Sear half the meatballs over a medium heat, turning them until they are brown all over, about 5 minutes. Remove, add another ½ tablespoon of olive oil to the pan and cook the other batch of meatballs. Remove from the pan and wipe it clean.
🧆 While the meatballs are cooking, throw the broad beans into a pot with plenty of salted boiling water and blanch for 2 minutes. Drain and refresh under cold water. Remove the skins from half the broad beans and discard the shells.
🧆 Heat the remaining olive oil in the same pan in which you seared the meatballs. Add the thyme, garlic and spring onion and sauté over a medium heat for 3 minutes. Add the unshelled broad beans, 1½ tablespoons of the lemon juice, 80ml of the stock, ¼ teaspoon of salt and plenty of black pepper. The beans should be almost covered with liquid. Cover the pan and cook over a low heat for 10 minutes.
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